incumbent

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Historically - both in the 1970s and over the past few years - incumbent governments across the world have been punished by voters in such moments.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Times/Berkeley IGS poll on L.A. mayor’s race shows incumbent Karen Bass in the lead.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

You will see AI adopted on top of existing applications at the core of running an enterprise, and incumbent software players will build some of those applications.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

They point out that Aussie Broadband appears to have been unaffected by incumbent Telstra’s November price cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

“The observance of these standards,” Veblen wrote, “in some degree of approximation, becomes incumbent upon all classes lower in the scale.”

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times